SMARTDEST DATASET WP3 v1.0

The SMARTDEST DATASET WP3 v1.0 includes data at sub-city level for 7 cities: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Edinburgh, Lisbon, Ljubljana, Turin, and Venice. It is made up of information extracted from public sources at the local level (mostly, city council open data portals) or volunteered geographic information, that is, geospatial content generated by non-professionals using mapping systems available on the Internet (e.g., Geofabrik). Details on data sources and variables are included in a ‘metadata’ spreadsheet in the excel file.

The same excel file contains 5 additional spreadsheets. The first one, labelled #1, was used to perform the analysis on the determinants of the geographical spread of tourism supply in SMARTDEST case study’s cities (in the main document D3.3, section 4.1), The second one (labelled #2) offers information that would allow to replicate the analysis on tourism-led population decline reported in section 4.3. As for spreadsheets named #3-AMS, #4-BCN, and #5-EDI, they refer to data sources and variables used to run follow-up analyses discussed in section 5.1, with the objective of digging into the causes of depopulation in Amsterdam, Barcelona, and Edinburgh, respectively.

The column ‘row’ can be used to merge the excel file with the shapefile ‘db_task3.3_SmartDest’. Data are available at the buurt level in Amsterdam (an administrative unit roughly corresponding to a neighbourhood), census tract level in Barcelona and Ljubljana, for data zones in Edinburgh, statistical zones in Turin, and località in Venice.